The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26
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house.
Mrs LOGAN is posted by many begging
letters.
A RETURN of the untidy dragging skirts
Is threatened.
SPoNeEs have been discovered in the
lake of Chautauqua.
SOME Georgians get 300 bushels OF sweet
potatoes out Of an acre.
Mrs. DRUsE refused to take of her hustle
before going to the gallows.
THE antlers of 25O elk were shipped from
Oregon to England last year.
Sam. JONES preached twice at Toronto,
recently, making e, 600 thereby.
A "MoTHER of triplcts" writes to Mrs.
Hendricks for money to buy cow.
JUDGE MASSEY, of Douglassville, Ca,
killed eleven partridges at one shot.
THE three Cole brothers, of Harrison,
Ca, have their hearts on the right side.
IT would be well if experts were to ex-
anime railroad bridges before the accidents.
A WE'LL at Yakutsk, Siberia, has been
estimated to be frozen to depth of 6l2
feet.
THEODORE Triton is living in Paris and
devoting himself in part to literary pur-
suits.
ALLEGED corruption in the municipal
affairs of Brooklyn is being investi-
gated.
The King of Italy now has whole Pull
man car to himself when he wants to
travel.
A TwENTY-EIGHT-ToED cat, with one yel-
low and one green eye, is exhibited in New
Haven.
To MAINTAIN peace for the next seven
years Germany is to have an army Of 46S,-
400 men.
Mrs. BAYARp TAYLOR and her daughter
Lillian have returned to Germany to reside
permanently.
JEFFERSON DAVIS says he is too old to
travel, and never expects to be in Wash
ington again.
THE Empress Of Austria is said to have
literary ambitions and is intending to pub
llsh u book soon.
AN apple tree over 100 years old and four
and a half feet in diameter, has been cut
down in Lyme, Conn.
THIRTEEN of the noted twenty passes of
the Rocky Mountains are more than 10000
feet above the sea level.
WoRK on the steam cruisers, Boston,
Atlanta and Chicago, has been suspended
for lack of appropriation.
SINCE the adjournment Of Congress
marble bust of John c. Calhoun has been
placed in the Senate gallery.
CARDINAL MANNING has heartily indorsed
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
toward the Knights of Labor.
MAMIE DEvALL, notorious courtesan Of
Indiana and Tennessee, will reform since
she has been left large fortune.
THE Louisville and Nashville will build
this year 1874 miles of new railroad, of
which 104 miles will be in Kentucky.
A VILLAGE, suburban to Atlanta, Ca, and
TO be exclusively for colored people, has
been laid out and is to be incorporated.
Mr.. BEEcHER many years ago expressed
the belief that death would come to him,
when it did come, in an apoplectic stroke
CHARLES Fl. HEIsER, an umbrella mender
in Pittsburgh, has inherited fortune Of
$4,000 from q cousin who died in Aus
tralia.
THE President has given his check for
500 to the fund for the erection of g
monument to the late Vice-President Hen
bricks.
The inventor of the repeating-rife re-
Gently adopted for the Austrian army has
been decorated by Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The name Dakota is a corruption of spa
ha-sota," meaning many heads-the crani-
ums of buffnloes being scattered thick on
all the trails.
A SOUTH CAROLINA mother has record
of seventeen children in nine years. The
first was solitary vOyager. The others
came in pairs.
Ir, %hr,E ~ 90, ol, TT~sx
States Senator 5000 year salary and
$5,3O7 year additional for attendants and
incidental expenses.
The President, treasurer and counsellor
of the "British-American Claim Agency"
We're arrested in New York, few days
ago, charged with fraud.
AT Detroit, Mich, Fred Frisbee said to
his landlady: ''If you insist ON me paying
my board bill will kill myself" She in
sisted. He shot himself.
The widow of Garibaldi lives in Quiet
street of Turin, the walls Of her little par
lor covered with flags, medals and other
mementoes of the dead hero.
AN inmate of the Middletown IN. W
Asylum is worth S5OO,OO0. He became in
sane over religion, and imagines he is
President of the United States.
Nix. CoNNERY, the new secretary of le-
cation to Mexico, will leave for his post
about the last of this month. Mr.. Connery
will collect the data for history of Mex
ico
JOSEPH CARTER, of Recklesstown, N. j.
recently butchered thirty remarkably fine
hogs. The lightest weighed Cos pounds the
heaviest S75; and the total weight was
2l.3Si pounds.
JAMES TAYLOR, while digging we'll ON
his farm near Excelsior, Wis, found in a
bed Of gravel twenty feet below the sur
face lot of beautiful amethysts and one
very large and valuable ruby.
On one Of the principal streets of Thom-
aston, Ga, the same room is occupied by a
physician and shOemaker-the physicians
Office being in front and the shoemaker,s
shop in the rear Over the door is chalked
the sign: 1--WE repair both sole and
body"
SEWING machine agent at Lonoke,
Ark, got the best of Mrs. l.. L. Buffalo in
sewing machine trade. Her husband re-
proved her for her folly. She took cold
poison and will not sew any more.
THE number of Apache prisoners at Fort
Marion, Fla, is 446 Since February l
three children have been born and four
Indians have died. The Indians generally
have behaved well. About fifty children
are under instruction.
POSTMASTER l.. DAVIS, of the town of
Solar, jackson County, ILL.,, receives the
very moderate salary of ten cents u year.